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Sister stylists are honored Salon owners are chamber’s 2021 Businesspeople of the Year ford, and have always been familiar with the Seaford community. They said they always wanted to Seaford-based hair stylists open a business on Merrick and sisters Nicole Consi and Road. “We love the community Laura Giacalone, who co-own of Seaford,” Consi said. “The LaCole Salon, have been named people here have been so great to the 2021 Businessus, and that’s why people of the Year by when we moved. the Seaford ChamOur goal was to stay ber of Commerce. in Seaford. We didn’t The pair received want to lose our the award on Oct. 29, amazing clients.” at the Nassau CounThe salon supty Council of Chamports a number of bers’ annual awards meaningful causes. breakfast. LaCole works with “We are beyond Seaford High School grateful to receive on a Career Developthis award,” Consi ment Program that said. “It is very humhelps disabled stubling that the people laURa dents gain career of the Seaford com- GiacaloNE experience by workmunity would ing at the salon. “We Co-owner, acknowledge us and fell in love with the respect us in this LaCole Salon students we work way.” with,” said GiacaloLaCole Salon has been a fix- ne, “and we’re so grateful to be ture in the community since it able to teach them about work opened as a salon and spa in Feb- ethic and help prepare them for ruary 2009, later downsizing to a their adult lives.” hair salon. It was located at 3962 The salon has also hosted Merrick Road for the first nine fundraisers for Crohn’s disease, years, but in 2018 it moved one through the “Take Ste ps” block west to its current loca- Crohn’s Colitis Foundation; tion, 3936 Merrick Road. domestic adoptions, with help Consi and Giacalone grew up in Plainedge, just north of SeaContinued on page 11
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in honor of veterans Terrence Murphy, adjutant of the Seaford American Legion, far left, organized and coordinated the annual Field of Honor for veterans last Sunday. Seaford High School students from left, Nick Tito, Kyle Stark, Dylan Brown, Jack Murphy, Jacqueline Grimaldi, Katherine Hoehn, Alexa Villeck and Shayla Fox were among the volunteers who helped put up more than 100 flags at the Seaford Long Island Rail Road station ahead of Veterans Day.
Vaccine eligibility expands
Children ages 5-11 are now in line for Covid shot By KatE NalEpiNSKi knalepinski@liherald.com
Wantagh and Seaford adults — and now children — are eligible for the Covid-19 vaccine following the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s emergency use authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech shot last month. The vaccine’s approval for children ages 5 through 11 was followed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s
endorsement last week. The vaccine is successful in protecting against Covid-19: It was found to be 90.7 percent effective in preventing the virus in children in that age group, according to data from the FDA. Over 28 million children in the U.S. are now eligible for the shot. “I am absolutely recommending vaccination for everyone who is eligible,” said Dr. Adina Geller, a pediatrician at ProKids Pediatrics, a division of Allied
Physicians Group in Levittown. “The vaccine is safe and effective in children and adults. It is highly protective against the virus, particularly severe illness, hospitalization and death.” “As a mom,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said in a press release, “I encourage parents with questions to talk to their pediatrician, school nurse or local pharmacist to learn Continued on page 15
ur staff has truly become a family. . . . We’ve built a great team.